Summary
Kousuke Kikuchi is a backend engineer and software architect with 11 years of experience building mission-critical systems where data correctness and irreversibility are paramount. He specializes in designing idempotent, re-executable workflows with clear finalization rules, prioritizing auditability and explainability over short-term performance gains. His background spans accounting-like balance systems, large-scale data workflow reliability, and cross-cutting work across application, data, and operations to ensure safe recovery and incremental migration. Kousuke favors consensus-driven decision making, clarifying constraints and trade-offs to align teams rather than imposing top-down directives. He has a habit of probing internals—debugging workflow engines and implementations rather than treating them as black boxes—to surface non-obvious failure modes. Based in Nishinomiya with a multidisciplinary academic foundation including architecture and digital fabrication, he brings an analytical, systems-first mindset to long-lived production services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Digital Fabrication, Certificate, Certificate, Digital Fabrication, Certificate at The Fab Academy
Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Waseda University
Japanese, English, Spanish